{"id":867922,"date":"2025-08-25T23:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/san-diego-fc-clinch-audi-2025-mls-cup-playoffs-spot-mlssoccer-com\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:11:48","slug":"san-diego-fc-clinch-audi-2025-mls-cup-playoffs-spot-mlssoccer-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/san-diego-fc-clinch-audi-2025-mls-cup-playoffs-spot-mlssoccer-com\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego FC clinch Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs spot | MLSSoccer.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<article xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-diego-fc\/\">San Diego FC<\/a> have checked off another milestone in their historic debut season, becoming the first club to clinch an Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs berth after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2025\/matches\/sdvspor-08-23-2025\/\">0-0 draw<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/portland-timbers\/\">Portland Timbers<\/a> on Matchday 30.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>SDFC are looking to make MLS history on two fronts: breaking the expansion-season points record and becoming the first club to win the Supporters&#8217; Shield during their inaugural campaign (best regular-season team).<\/p>\n<p>With six matches remaining, the Chrome-and-Azul lead the Western Conference and trail the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/philadelphia-union\/\">Philadelphia Union<\/a> by a single point in the Shield race (53 points; 16W-7L-5D record).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><h3>Star players<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/anders-dreyer\/\">Anders Dreyer<\/a> has emerged as a Landon Donovan MLS MVP candidate and Newcomer of the Year frontrunner, posting a league-best 30 goal contributions (13g\/17a). The club&#8217;s first-ever Designated Player, Mexico international winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/hirving-lozano\/\">Chucky Lozano<\/a> (8g\/8a), has more than delivered alongside him.<\/p>\n<p>All-Star midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/jeppe-tverskov\/\">Jeppe Tverskov<\/a> has been one of the league&#8217;s top No. 6s, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/us-men-s-national-team\/\">USMNT<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/luca-de-la-torre\/\">Luca de la Torre<\/a> has impressed in a return to his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego have also committed to playing youngsters, reflecting their long-term vision for the club&#8217;s Right to Dream Academy. All the while, Mikey Varas has emerged as a Sigi Schmid Coach of the Year contender.<\/p>\n<p>Can the Chrome-and-Azul continue their unprecedented inaugural season and become the second expansion side in MLS history to win MLS Cup in their first year?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">PLAYOFFS??? PLAYOFFS??? LFGSD <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0WWDFl14eZ\">pic.twitter.com\/0WWDFl14eZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Diego FC (@sandiegofc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sandiegofc\/status\/1959474963544719731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><h3>Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>MLS Cup presented by Audi will be played Dec. 6, while the playoffs begin Oct. 22 with Wild Card matches.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Seeds 1-7 in each conference qualify for the Round One Best-of-3 Series.<\/li>\n<li>Seeds 8-9 in each conference qualify for the Wild Card matches.<\/li>\n<li>Seeds 10-15 in each conference do not qualify for the postseason.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>All games can be watched on <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/channel\/mls-season-pass\/tvs.sbd.7000\">MLS Season Pass on Apple TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/san-diego-fc-clinch-audi-2025-mls-cup-playoffs-spot\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Leigha Pekar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer San Diego FC have checked off another milestone in their historic debut season, becoming the first club to clinch an Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs berth after a 0-0 draw against the Portland Timbers on Matchday 30. SDFC are looking to make MLS history on two fronts: breaking the expansion-season points record and becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":867923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93075,1699,2005],"tags":[96424,13195],"class_list":{"0":"post-867922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-clinch","8":"category-diego","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-clinch","11":"tag-diego"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}